#publishing

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

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If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#ideas #industry #publishing #received #weren

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#career #go #i #publishing #willing

So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#book #editing #few #gave #go

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#making #play #process #publishing #rehearsing

I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#demos #got #i #money #publishing

Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation. ↗

— Rob Walton

#beginning #big #big bang #calling #course

We do not like the truth because it is simple, we do not want the truth because it is hard, and we do not trust the truth because it is free. Perhaps because many are idealists and publishing is so frustrating, writers are particularly vulnerable to believing in those who offer hope in exchange for cash. Writers know life is tough and we all want to think of an easier way. Maybe for a rare few, there is. If you count on that, you are a chump and somebody is going to take your money and break your heart. ↗

— Pat Walsh

#writing #life

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#publishing #rejections #fame

It’s always the end of the world,” said Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives. “You could set your watch on it arriving.” He pointed out, though, that the landscape was in some ways changing for the first time since Gutenberg invented the modern book nearly 600 years ago. “The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader,” he said. “Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity.” Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal. New York Times, 10/16/2011 ↗

— Russell Grandinetti

#e-books #libraries #publishing #change